The services sector is the next frontier in trade liberalization, and progress in this area is likely to bring enormous economic gain to developed and developing economies. A major impediment to services trade liberaliza­ tion, however, is the lack of rigorous analytical work on its potential impact. Our aim in this paper is to propel the policy relevant research forward. Restrictions on servic...

W consider the problem of determining a set of optimal tariffs for an agent in the network, who owns a subset of all the arcs, and who receives revenue by setting the tariffs on the arcs he owns. Multiple rational clients are active in the network, who route their demands on the least expensive paths from source to destination. The cost of a path is determined by fixed costs and tariffs on the ...

in this study, the social welfare impacts of the interaction of iranian rice import policies and thai export policies are analyzed using a game theoretic approach in conjunction with econometric supply and demand models. the joint impacts of increasing the world price of rice, resulting from the export policies in thailand along with changes in tariff rates in iran, on social welfare are analyz...

PT Askes (Persero) uses a combination of fee-for-service (FFS) and package tariff as a provider payment mechanism. Based Wouters, Annemarie et al (1999), FFS system has a high financial risk for payor. The objectives of this paper are to give a preliminary comparison between INACBGs (which is Indoesian DRG) and Askes’ tariff (MoH Act number: 416/Menkes/Per/II/2011), to estimate financial risks ...

The first attempts at the Latin American integration process showed a highly pragmatic character, without many concerns for medium and long-term projects. main concern was to expand intra extra-regional trade. However, since 1980s (the decade considered lost America), when external debt crises adjustment policies recommended by International Monetary Fund (IMF) led region higher poverty rate du...

ÿWe investigate how the superiority of the optimal subsidy or tariff in an international Cournot oligopoly depends on the production technology used in the industry, an interesting issue that has not been analyzed in the literature. We establish that the welfare superiority of the optimal subsidy or tariff depends on the relative steepness of the firms’ common marginal cost curve: when it is re...

Recent research on the importance of the antebellum tariff for the survival of the American cotton textile industry has come into highly conflicting conclusions. By examining both the British and American experiences throughout the period, we find that both extreme conclusions are potentially misleading. Our results suggest that both the quality composition of imports from Great Britain and the...